For years, The Enterprise has been detailing the toll heroin and OxyContin addiction have taken on the lives of young people and their families in the region.

Now the television newsmagazine “Chronicle” will air a show Wednesday night on that drug issue, featuring, in part, some of the newspaper’s work on the epidemic.

The half-hour show will air at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday on WCVB, Channel 5, and is set to include interviews with Joanne Peterson of Raynham, the founder of the family support group Learn to Cope, others touched by addiction and Enterprise staff reporter Maureen Boyle. She was part of the team that worked on the two series, “Wasted Youth” and “Deadly Surge,” focusing on the drug problem here.

Videographer Craig Murray and Enterprise Managing Editor Steve Damish also worked on the newspaper’s two projects.

The “Chronicle” story, produced by Amy Masters, reports on the alarming opiate trend and how Brockton is trying to turn the tide. The story, reported by Anthony Everett, was edited by Ellen Boyce and Joe Mozdiez and photographed by Judi Guild.

The show will also feature a segment on a treatment center in Arlington run by the former drummer of the Del Fuegos, a local rock band in the ’80s. The center, called “Right Turn,” treats everyone but focuses on artistic people, such as musicians, comics and artists who tend to have a higher rate of drug abuse.

The “Chronicle” show is the latest television and radio outlet to focus on the opiate addiction problem in the state and in the greater Brockton suburban area in particular. Brockton and the state have also examined the issue.

One study by the Brockton mayor’s Opioid Overdose Prevention Coalition found 38 people between Jan. 1, 2007, and Sept. 15, 2008, died of an opioid-related overdose. In 30 of the cases, the person was also using another drug or alcohol. Most of the overdose victims were white.

The 14-member state OxyContin and Heroin Commission, in another report, called for an overhaul of the state’s prescription monitoring program to identify patients who are trying to get drugs from different doctors, and doctors who are over-prescribing certain types of drugs.

That recommendation is one of 20 by the commission to address OxyContin and heroin abuse and addiction in the state.

The recommendations range from longer treatment programs — a suggestion long urged by addicts, their families and those in the treatment field — to changing the law so parents are notified if their minor children are treated at a hospital for a drug overdose.

It also calls for providing limited immunity from drug-possession charges when someone calls for help in a drug-related overdose.